There are a couple of local computer shops, though. Microworx is up at the corner of Monroe and Westfall (actually its where Westfall ends, but I don't know the name of the road Westfall turns into). Soyata is, uhm, somewhere: I don't think they've died yet. Neither of them, as far as I know, do what exactly CompUSA does - you can get computer parts there, though.
From my perspective, I absolutely *loved* Media Play in their heyday. I used to go there all the damned time. For one thing, they had by far the best selection of anime I could find back when anime was starting to become big. And from that, I would go there and browse books and CDs. I'd occasionally buy a video game there. And they always had other products that made me go 'ooooh'
Then they went downhill. Getting pinged every time about a Replay card got annoying very, very quickly. It seemed like their stores slowly went downhill in terms of cleanliness and display of product. I started going to other stores for books and video games. I was already buying less anime. It really came down to the fact that I stopped caring about Media Play, and didn't really notice them go out of business.
Unless of course you're live in a place that uses the MM/DD/YY scheme for recording dates.
Then you already encountered these dates in February, March, and April.
Even better than that would be letting users select certain sections that, for them, would be promoted to full-type stories. So I could make my own front page that consisted of regular front page stories and Apple stories.
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Which is, in the end, the reason why the past always seems so much better than the present. No one remembers the crappy movies of the time, just the classics that everyone (for good reason) loves. Similiarly, very few people will remember Underworld fifty years from now. They may, very well, remember the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (or not - I'm not a good judge of what's going to be popular in the future. If I was, I'd be rich.)
Its definitely a lot better than the articles posted by this article (and indeed, most of the articles over the last six months). Mmm. The tasty crunch of actual journalism.
So, I took a look at the articles in question. No sources named whatsoever, no comments from company officials, nothing at all to indicate that this is actual news and not just news analysts throwing darts at a wall somewhere and hitting "Google buys AOL". Again, for that matter, since this is something like the third time that news reports of this deal have happened.
Wake me up when actual news occurs - complete with named sources or a press release, or something to make me think that this is more than just some writers trying to sound like they're insiders.
I tend to agree with you - the Democrats need something different. That different is, probably, giving someone with an actual idea the microphone of the party and giving them air-time. So far, most of what I've heard from the democrats has been 'Bush wants this! Bush is evil! We don't want this!'
Very possibly accurate, but not very helpful: what are you going to do different. What policy do you propose, what are your ideas?
Well..
We don't really need an amendment to the constitution to change this - I think just convincing local, state and national lawmakers to pass a law forbidding these sorts of eminent domain seizures would be effective and much, much more likely to get through. Your choice as to what level of government you want to start with: I personally suggest local or state.:)
Your friend should try removing the third party control from his page, and see if it was caused by them and not ASP.NET
Look at the source of the page and you see all sorts of references to a 'componentart' set of controls, which happens to be a third party set of controls.
Actually, some sources (the Economist being the main one I'm drawing from) are saying OPEC is going to cut quotas in an attempt to forestall a price crash. Its looking like they're currently happy when the price is around $50-$54 a barrel.
Worse, even, is that the fact that our currency is the world's reserve currency is one of those things that lets us have a national debt bigger (proportionally, even!) than Argentina's and not have our economy react like theirs did.
If the dollar loses its reserve currency status before that debt is paid down, we're going to be feeling the pain.
The economist did a bunch of articles about this a couple issues back. They can be found at http://www.economist.com/printedition/index.cfm?d= 20041204&CFID=47682142&CFTOKEN=1d8b2e0-47dcf350-ef 64-4b48-a2ed-2d4e8897dd4e
Mega-ad viewing is required.:/
Having looked through it in a very brief sense, it looks like the page is basically using XML-HTTP based off of the input text box and then feeding the results of that into a div.
The fascinating bits of this is how it degrades. It starts by trying to instantiate MS's own XMLHTTP object (Msxml2.XMLHTTP), then trying to instantiate the com object Microsoft.XMLHTTP. If that fails, it will try to create an instance of XMLHttpRequest, which seems to be an intrinsic object in Firefox. Does anyone know if XmlHttpRequest is standard DOM now?
I can't really figure out where you're basing your claim that our military training is substandard - the article seemed to make the point, as I read it, that Marcone's troops reacted exceedingly well to suddenly encountering a larger enemy force. Certainly, the resultant destruction of that force compared to no US deaths seems to contradict you.
Do you have other articles, or your own experiences, that you'd like to share to clarify your point?
Let me get this straight. People are worried about terrorists going to the effort of buying hand-held lasers and using them to blind pilots? Doesn't a laser actually have to *hit* the eye in order to do damage? If so, that means that, from the ground, the terrorists would have to hit four targets the size of eyes (since it probably won't help to knock out the pilot, yo uneed to take out the copilot as well) flying up in the sky in a plan several tens of thousands of feet above the ground.
You know, I hope the terrorists do start trying to do this. Let them waste their mone ytrying to get this to work rather than, say, nuclear bombs.
I'll have to admit that I don't know enough about Zilog to say anything about why their Z8000 didn't become popular. I'm willing to bet its partly IBM's fault.:)
But I definitely agree with you on the last bit. Its like Intel suddenly lost a bunch of institutional memory and is determined to screw up by the book.
What really amazes me here is that Intel didn't know that! I mean, they did once upon a time: look at how long x86 has lasted. What caused them to forget that important bit of knowledge?
Given that AMD's goal has to be to make money, which requires that they get customers, it would seem that it is a great idea. Customers seem to like the idea of their applications continuing to work.
I honestly don't know what Intel was thinking, to be honest. Did they really think that users were going to jump to using a 64-bit chip, which had something like a 1/10th of the applications available for it as x86, just because Intel made it?
Wait.
So a journal hawking one of the most over-hyped ideas of this new century, in an article where you get about 1% of the available page space to actually read the text of the essay (the rest is all advertisments and bad page design), claims that Sun is going to fail because its relying too much on marketing and hype?
Pot. Kettle. Black.
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There are a couple of local computer shops, though. Microworx is up at the corner of Monroe and Westfall (actually its where Westfall ends, but I don't know the name of the road Westfall turns into). Soyata is, uhm, somewhere: I don't think they've died yet. Neither of them, as far as I know, do what exactly CompUSA does - you can get computer parts there, though.
Well, this was an analyst, so he went to Analyst College. Second semester course: Trolling Slashdot for Profit 101.
From my perspective, I absolutely *loved* Media Play in their heyday. I used to go there all the damned time. For one thing, they had by far the best selection of anime I could find back when anime was starting to become big. And from that, I would go there and browse books and CDs. I'd occasionally buy a video game there. And they always had other products that made me go 'ooooh' Then they went downhill. Getting pinged every time about a Replay card got annoying very, very quickly. It seemed like their stores slowly went downhill in terms of cleanliness and display of product. I started going to other stores for books and video games. I was already buying less anime. It really came down to the fact that I stopped caring about Media Play, and didn't really notice them go out of business.
Unless of course you're live in a place that uses the MM/DD/YY scheme for recording dates. Then you already encountered these dates in February, March, and April.
Seriously - I have a Sprint 6700 phone. Its essentially a PDA with phone functionality - why is this not considered a PDA instead of a smart phone?
The PDA isn't going to die - its going to get subsumed by devices that offer more features. Duh.
What's really amusing is the fact that took several of those false rumors and made another rumor from them.
Even better than that would be letting users select certain sections that, for them, would be promoted to full-type stories. So I could make my own front page that consisted of regular front page stories and Apple stories.
Which is, in the end, the reason why the past always seems so much better than the present. No one remembers the crappy movies of the time, just the classics that everyone (for good reason) loves. Similiarly, very few people will remember Underworld fifty years from now. They may, very well, remember the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (or not - I'm not a good judge of what's going to be popular in the future. If I was, I'd be rich.)
Its definitely a lot better than the articles posted by this article (and indeed, most of the articles over the last six months). Mmm. The tasty crunch of actual journalism.
Wake me up when actual news occurs - complete with named sources or a press release, or something to make me think that this is more than just some writers trying to sound like they're insiders.
After all, if we send our roughneck oil workers to the sun, who is going to save us from the asteroids? :>-
Very possibly accurate, but not very helpful: what are you going to do different. What policy do you propose, what are your ideas?
Well.. We don't really need an amendment to the constitution to change this - I think just convincing local, state and national lawmakers to pass a law forbidding these sorts of eminent domain seizures would be effective and much, much more likely to get through. Your choice as to what level of government you want to start with: I personally suggest local or state. :)
Your friend should try removing the third party control from his page, and see if it was caused by them and not ASP.NET Look at the source of the page and you see all sorts of references to a 'componentart' set of controls, which happens to be a third party set of controls.
Correction to this. OPEC did, in fact, cut their quotas earlier this month. Oil prices had been sliding, and are currently around $40.
Actually, some sources (the Economist being the main one I'm drawing from) are saying OPEC is going to cut quotas in an attempt to forestall a price crash. Its looking like they're currently happy when the price is around $50-$54 a barrel.
Worse, even, is that the fact that our currency is the world's reserve currency is one of those things that lets us have a national debt bigger (proportionally, even!) than Argentina's and not have our economy react like theirs did. If the dollar loses its reserve currency status before that debt is paid down, we're going to be feeling the pain. The economist did a bunch of articles about this a couple issues back. They can be found at http://www.economist.com/printedition/index.cfm?d= 20041204&CFID=47682142&CFTOKEN=1d8b2e0-47dcf350-ef 64-4b48-a2ed-2d4e8897dd4e
Mega-ad viewing is required. :/
The fascinating bits of this is how it degrades. It starts by trying to instantiate MS's own XMLHTTP object (Msxml2.XMLHTTP), then trying to instantiate the com object Microsoft.XMLHTTP. If that fails, it will try to create an instance of XMLHttpRequest, which seems to be an intrinsic object in Firefox. Does anyone know if XmlHttpRequest is standard DOM now?
Can anyone else see this as being the next big reality show? Seven contestants. One spaceship. Antics ensue.
I can't really figure out where you're basing your claim that our military training is substandard - the article seemed to make the point, as I read it, that Marcone's troops reacted exceedingly well to suddenly encountering a larger enemy force. Certainly, the resultant destruction of that force compared to no US deaths seems to contradict you. Do you have other articles, or your own experiences, that you'd like to share to clarify your point?
Let me get this straight. People are worried about terrorists going to the effort of buying hand-held lasers and using them to blind pilots? Doesn't a laser actually have to *hit* the eye in order to do damage? If so, that means that, from the ground, the terrorists would have to hit four targets the size of eyes (since it probably won't help to knock out the pilot, yo uneed to take out the copilot as well) flying up in the sky in a plan several tens of thousands of feet above the ground. You know, I hope the terrorists do start trying to do this. Let them waste their mone ytrying to get this to work rather than, say, nuclear bombs.
I'll have to admit that I don't know enough about Zilog to say anything about why their Z8000 didn't become popular. I'm willing to bet its partly IBM's fault. :)
But I definitely agree with you on the last bit. Its like Intel suddenly lost a bunch of institutional memory and is determined to screw up by the book.
What really amazes me here is that Intel didn't know that! I mean, they did once upon a time: look at how long x86 has lasted. What caused them to forget that important bit of knowledge?
Given that AMD's goal has to be to make money, which requires that they get customers, it would seem that it is a great idea. Customers seem to like the idea of their applications continuing to work.
I honestly don't know what Intel was thinking, to be honest. Did they really think that users were going to jump to using a 64-bit chip, which had something like a 1/10th of the applications available for it as x86, just because Intel made it?
Wait. So a journal hawking one of the most over-hyped ideas of this new century, in an article where you get about 1% of the available page space to actually read the text of the essay (the rest is all advertisments and bad page design), claims that Sun is going to fail because its relying too much on marketing and hype? Pot. Kettle. Black.